girls:
722.6k births since 1900
#33 (99th percentile)
boys:
3.1k births since 1902
#2244 (51st percentile)
overall:
725.8k births since 1900
#80 (99th percentile)
The name Sharon is the #80 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 725,750 recorded births since 1900. This represents the 99.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 99.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #33 (99.4% percentile) for all time with 722,645 births since 1900. For boys, it ranks #2,244 (51.0% percentile) for all time with 3,105 births since 1902.
Sharon first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1900 (1900 for girls and 1902 for boys). Birth data for Sharon is available in 117 out of the 124 years between 1900 and 2023 (116 years for girls and 104 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Sharon has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Sharon reached its peak popularity in 1943, achieving the 98.9% percentile (ranked #8) with 17,217 births per million. The name was most common in 1946, with 17,251 births per million (ranked 98.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1947, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Sharon ranks #779 for girls (17.8% percentile) with 99 births per million, which is 0.6% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Sharon reached its peak popularity in 1944, achieving the 16.7% percentile (ranked #461) with 70 births per million. The name was most common in 1944, with 70 births per million (ranked 16.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Sharon".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Sharon. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 57.4% confident that Sharon is pronounced as SHEH-ruhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is SHA-ruhn, at 31.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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